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23 April 2018, 11:15

H.Hopko: Pursuing Bolbochan’s gilded fighting spirit legacies

(&nbspInformation Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat&nbsp)

On April 22, the Head of
the Committee on Foreign Affairs Hanna Hopko took part in the festivities
devoted to the100thanniversary
of liberation of the Crimea from the Russian-Bolshevik occupantsby
the Ukrainian army.

In Chonhar, bordering
the Crimea occupied, there were held a range of festive gatherings and a
concert dedicated to the developments of 1918, whilst the people of Novooleksiivka
station enjoyed the opening ceremony of a commemorative plaque arranged by the “Heroika”
charitable organization.

The ceremony was
also attended by the Crimean presidential aide Borys Babin, representatives of
the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance,
the local authorities, the
Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, servicemen, and public persons.

“The brilliant
liberation of the Crimea by the Ukrainian army led by Petro Bolbochan became a
landmark page in the Book of struggle for our independence and territorial
integrity.Today,
when Ukraine again has faced
up to liberating the Crimea from the same Russian
occupation, the memory about
this heroic page of the Ukrainian revolution strengthens
our confidence in victory,”
observed Hanna Hopko.

The committee head
H.Hopko and the aide B.Babin paid a visit to Chonhar peninsula to greet the
Ukrainian border guards there and had much talk on stiffening inviolability of
Ukraine’s southern frontiers.

Hanna Hopko is
about to take part on April 23 in the roundtable talks on the 100th
anniversary of the Crimean operation and the pressing issues of the state de-occupation
policy. She will also discuss the regional decentralization and international
cooperation matters with representatives of the local government.